Yes, you are the 100% winner of the day. Silverlight needs a platform to be used on, and it needs to be big and unavoidable. Otherwise, who will bother? Putting it on the MSN news site or for MSN promotional videos won't likely help widespread use. People would just not look at those pages but instead go to alternatives that work.
By the way, I actually decided to install Silverlight on my XP machine with 512 MB of RAM and a VIA CPU, getting a 'Silverlight is not installable on your PC' error. And no reason why. Thank you MS, Flash is running fine.
It all depends on the amount of compression you use when copying the DVD. To fit 80 DVDs on 8 GB one needs movies of about 100 MB. Maybe for mobile phone quality movies...
What does a company have to do to get the registry of all norwegian citizens? If I start a little reseller shop, can I get one? Isn't the system to give these data to companies in the first place flawed by design?
Actually, no. He describes an upgrade went flawlessly, but an install of gutsy from scratch on another pc ended up in xorg problems, and looking for "dubious advice in fora". The stuff we all know too well.
Isn't it ironic that in germany the iPhone will be bundled with.... T-Mobile!
I wonder how crippled the total T-Mobile package will be in the end, at the moment, flat-rate data packages for mobile phones include a whopping 5 MB of data transfer. Yes, they call something with a data-limit still a flat-rate out here, the bastards.
Yeah, if this would have been a specific complaint about XP, for example, it would have already been useless by now. It luckily seems to go a little further if I understand correctly.
In Amsterdam, you easily pay more on locks than on your bike, since no matter what quality your bike, it is worth a default price for the junkies that use them as a source of income, it used to be about 25-50 euro when I left.
All locks can be opened if enough effort is spent. But that is an important "if": you can make your bike the least likely to get stolen by increasing the effort needed to open all the locks on your lock. In general:
* Use at least 3 locks, as different as possible. Thieves specialize in one of them, using different ones will mean a lot more time to be spent opening them. Also, just the view of the sheer amount of locks on your bike might scare potential thieves away.
* Always make sure both your frame and front wheel are locked. If one of them is not bound to either an other part of the bike or to a pole, that part is likely to get stolen. Most thieves just detach unlocked frames and front wheels from separate bikes, and combine them afterwards. That way they don't even need to break open any lock. If you have an expensive saddle, try to lock it as well.
* Locks with cylindrical keys are an easy goal for the infamous BIC pen trick.
* Something similar counts for coiled cable locks. No matter how thick these coils are, they consist of tiny metal cables, each of which can be cut with household scissors. "Armored" versions of these locks exist, with a metal shell around the coil, but this just means that you don't know how thick the actual coil is. These locks look impressive, but the metal shell can be bent, and you yourself probably even don't know how thin the metal coil is inside the shell.
* Popular in Amsterdam at the moment are the good old chain locks. And for city bikes the frame locks. (The latter will probably not fit on mountain- and sports bikes).
* If you are in a city with a known bike-theft problem, don't leave 2000 euro bikes on the street, no matter what kind of locks you use. Make sure you have a boring bike that looks worn out, for your daily use.
I had a bike in Utrecht and a bike in Amsterdam, both protected in the same way and both of them didn't get stolen. The bike in Utrecht was parked next to the central station, and left at the same spot over the weekends even.
Yeah I wonder if it comes with diagnostics tools. That would make it very useful indeed, not only for people seeking driver info to get linux working, also for the windows people (hard drive recovery!).
Free marketing idea for Microsoft: Make a deal with Myspace so they will render Myspace unusable on anything except Vista. That way you'll sell Vista fast enough, it's the only PC use for a lot of people out there.
It is tragically insightful at the same time that Apple/Dell/etc. products sell with a 1 dollar : 1 euro price tag around here in Europe, compared to US prices. Probably these machines would become dead cheap for Europeans if they would start correcting the european prices to what the machines are apparently worth in dollars. Then again, enough is sold with these high prices already and they don't want to lose their margins.
Furthermore, in tin foil hat mode, why does the DHS have a "Open Source Intelligence Report" newsletter? Are people using Open Source as suspicious to the DHS as they want to think us to be?
Correction: People leaving out on opportunities to study what they want, just to get a higher salary, are too busy living for their work, instead of working for a living.
I probably earn way less now than I would if I had chosen to do an MBA directly after my BSc degree (not really BSc, we had a bit different system back then). For that in return, as an academic you get the flexibility to follow your (changing) interests, as long as you keep the output going of course. If your heart tells you to be a manager or consultant, then do it. If you're only following your current path because of the money, think it over. You will be spending most of your conscious hours in life working, better make it an enjoyable time. Money will buy you a bigger car and a bigger house, but how often do you get to enjoy them?
Wow, but errr, knight rider was a show for kids mainly, no wonder it seems dull to you 20 years later, with also you about 20 years older.
Other remake idea from me, free of charge for anyone to use: blue thunder! But that one was actually about a guy who was disobedient to his boss, not the kind of story that is popular in this patriotic day and age. So was the A-team BTW, didn't they quit the army? Maybe the 80s did have a good thing to it, it just got obfuscated by the giant haircuts.
People seem to think it needs more ram because that idea sort of came along with the promotion. Vista has so many new offers, it needs a lot more RAM, doesn't that show how good it is! This is probably still the same old tactic to use the OS to sell new PCs and vice-versa. With the small difference that it doesn't really work this time. People can already do everything they want with XP: edit movies, sort photos, etc. Even the "standard" users see that it's just not worth it.
Didn'T RTFA, but is this guy reviewing a product he didn't even use or see being used, so in effect only from the marketingspeak that came in the announcement?
Sorry old Jacques! Didn't want to offend! I guess age is not related with this, but more the fact that the patent examiner knows his way in the field, whereas the control committee might be more general. I have no clue why otherwise they would reject the patent rejection!
Apparently the Examiner saw it, but the people higher up (let me guess, older?) are apparently easily flabbergasted by Amazon's techspeak. I'm no patent lawyer, but I can imagine one can rewrite "using account data saved from the user" in a complex enough way to make it sound like innovation.
And as far as I've heard it's a crap 'invention' anyway, one wrong click and you just spent money on something you didn't really want. I'd rather review my account data and address every time.
Furthermore Germany seems to follow the 'American Way' of removing constitutional liberties with about 5 years delay, as far as I know laws for warantless eavesdropping by the police are in the making. There is more dumb stuff going on here: at the very moment that Germany needs more highly educated personell they introduce university fees, to name an example.
If you know any German you might want to watch this ARD documentary on the privacy breakdown going on in Germany at the moment.
What about this: Upon first boot and after a reset, it won't open a connection to the outside world but instead lead you to a homepage on its internal server asking you to change the password. Shouldn't be too hard, and is still relatively user-friendly.
Similar ones are (or I hope by now they were) mandatory for the natural science students in Dutch high-schools, you have to use them on the final exam even! I think since the late 90s. You should be able to program a function in it and look at the graph it draws on the screen. This more or less diminishes math knowledge to knowing how to use the device (which I bet is a bitch), and not so much understand how to find the derivatives, zero points, etc of a function. But what bothers me the most is that these machines cost quite a lot and are completely useless! Even the students going on in natural sciences won't use them because Mathematica and the likes are much more practical for mathematical work than a limited calculator.
In which country is Amazon based in? I suggest excluding that country from the WTO, they are supporting stealing bastards! Think of the poor record company execs!
Hmm thanks, I didn't find that one, since I wasn't looking at 'services & support'. From the site:
An individual stand-alone license entitles the purchaser to run an Autodesk® product on a single workstation. Its an ideal solution for individuals and small workgroups because it doesnt require centralized license management.
Your Autodesk product may be installed and activated on one additional workstation, such as a home or remote workstation, provided that the workstations are not used concurrently, are used exclusively by the same person, and are owned or under the control of the license holder.
First of all, if it should be used exclusively by the same person, how can this be a solution for small workgroups? And I get the point that it can be used by only one person at the same time, but I am not sure if they either implicitly or explicitly state that it is non-transferrable. Food for lawyers I guess.
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By the way, I actually decided to install Silverlight on my XP machine with 512 MB of RAM and a VIA CPU, getting a 'Silverlight is not installable on your PC' error. And no reason why. Thank you MS, Flash is running fine.
It all depends on the amount of compression you use when copying the DVD. To fit 80 DVDs on 8 GB one needs movies of about 100 MB. Maybe for mobile phone quality movies...
What does a company have to do to get the registry of all norwegian citizens? If I start a little reseller shop, can I get one? Isn't the system to give these data to companies in the first place flawed by design?
Actually, no. He describes an upgrade went flawlessly, but an install of gutsy from scratch on another pc ended up in xorg problems, and looking for "dubious advice in fora". The stuff we all know too well.
I wonder how crippled the total T-Mobile package will be in the end, at the moment, flat-rate data packages for mobile phones include a whopping 5 MB of data transfer. Yes, they call something with a data-limit still a flat-rate out here, the bastards.
Yeah, if this would have been a specific complaint about XP, for example, it would have already been useless by now. It luckily seems to go a little further if I understand correctly.
All locks can be opened if enough effort is spent. But that is an important "if": you can make your bike the least likely to get stolen by increasing the effort needed to open all the locks on your lock. In general:
* Use at least 3 locks, as different as possible. Thieves specialize in one of them, using different ones will mean a lot more time to be spent opening them. Also, just the view of the sheer amount of locks on your bike might scare potential thieves away.
* Always make sure both your frame and front wheel are locked. If one of them is not bound to either an other part of the bike or to a pole, that part is likely to get stolen. Most thieves just detach unlocked frames and front wheels from separate bikes, and combine them afterwards. That way they don't even need to break open any lock. If you have an expensive saddle, try to lock it as well.
* Locks with cylindrical keys are an easy goal for the infamous BIC pen trick.
* Something similar counts for coiled cable locks. No matter how thick these coils are, they consist of tiny metal cables, each of which can be cut with household scissors. "Armored" versions of these locks exist, with a metal shell around the coil, but this just means that you don't know how thick the actual coil is. These locks look impressive, but the metal shell can be bent, and you yourself probably even don't know how thin the metal coil is inside the shell.
* Popular in Amsterdam at the moment are the good old chain locks. And for city bikes the frame locks. (The latter will probably not fit on mountain- and sports bikes).
* If you are in a city with a known bike-theft problem, don't leave 2000 euro bikes on the street, no matter what kind of locks you use. Make sure you have a boring bike that looks worn out, for your daily use.
I had a bike in Utrecht and a bike in Amsterdam, both protected in the same way and both of them didn't get stolen. The bike in Utrecht was parked next to the central station, and left at the same spot over the weekends even.
Yeah I wonder if it comes with diagnostics tools. That would make it very useful indeed, not only for people seeking driver info to get linux working, also for the windows people (hard drive recovery!).
Free marketing idea for Microsoft: Make a deal with Myspace so they will render Myspace unusable on anything except Vista. That way you'll sell Vista fast enough, it's the only PC use for a lot of people out there.
It is tragically insightful at the same time that Apple/Dell/etc. products sell with a 1 dollar : 1 euro price tag around here in Europe, compared to US prices. Probably these machines would become dead cheap for Europeans if they would start correcting the european prices to what the machines are apparently worth in dollars. Then again, enough is sold with these high prices already and they don't want to lose their margins.
Furthermore, in tin foil hat mode, why does the DHS have a "Open Source Intelligence Report" newsletter? Are people using Open Source as suspicious to the DHS as they want to think us to be?
I probably earn way less now than I would if I had chosen to do an MBA directly after my BSc degree (not really BSc, we had a bit different system back then). For that in return, as an academic you get the flexibility to follow your (changing) interests, as long as you keep the output going of course. If your heart tells you to be a manager or consultant, then do it. If you're only following your current path because of the money, think it over. You will be spending most of your conscious hours in life working, better make it an enjoyable time. Money will buy you a bigger car and a bigger house, but how often do you get to enjoy them?
Other remake idea from me, free of charge for anyone to use: blue thunder! But that one was actually about a guy who was disobedient to his boss, not the kind of story that is popular in this patriotic day and age. So was the A-team BTW, didn't they quit the army? Maybe the 80s did have a good thing to it, it just got obfuscated by the giant haircuts.
People seem to think it needs more ram because that idea sort of came along with the promotion. Vista has so many new offers, it needs a lot more RAM, doesn't that show how good it is! This is probably still the same old tactic to use the OS to sell new PCs and vice-versa. With the small difference that it doesn't really work this time. People can already do everything they want with XP: edit movies, sort photos, etc. Even the "standard" users see that it's just not worth it.
Didn'T RTFA, but is this guy reviewing a product he didn't even use or see being used, so in effect only from the marketingspeak that came in the announcement?
Sorry old Jacques! Didn't want to offend! I guess age is not related with this, but more the fact that the patent examiner knows his way in the field, whereas the control committee might be more general. I have no clue why otherwise they would reject the patent rejection!
Amazing bastards then :( I guess that's what a monopoly does to you... Or is there any good alternative?
And as far as I've heard it's a crap 'invention' anyway, one wrong click and you just spent money on something you didn't really want. I'd rather review my account data and address every time.
Hmmm, make that 'incompetent people maintaining bridges are a real problem'.
If you know any German you might want to watch this ARD documentary on the privacy breakdown going on in Germany at the moment.
If it goes on like this they will end up being pretty good line-dancers!
What about this: Upon first boot and after a reset, it won't open a connection to the outside world but instead lead you to a homepage on its internal server asking you to change the password. Shouldn't be too hard, and is still relatively user-friendly.
Similar ones are (or I hope by now they were) mandatory for the natural science students in Dutch high-schools, you have to use them on the final exam even! I think since the late 90s. You should be able to program a function in it and look at the graph it draws on the screen. This more or less diminishes math knowledge to knowing how to use the device (which I bet is a bitch), and not so much understand how to find the derivatives, zero points, etc of a function. But what bothers me the most is that these machines cost quite a lot and are completely useless! Even the students going on in natural sciences won't use them because Mathematica and the likes are much more practical for mathematical work than a limited calculator.
In which country is Amazon based in? I suggest excluding that country from the WTO, they are supporting stealing bastards! Think of the poor record company execs!
An individual stand-alone license entitles the purchaser to run an Autodesk® product on a single workstation. Its an ideal solution for individuals and small workgroups because it doesnt require centralized license management.
Your Autodesk product may be installed and activated on one additional workstation, such as a home or remote workstation, provided that the workstations are not used concurrently, are used exclusively by the same person, and are owned or under the control of the license holder.
First of all, if it should be used exclusively by the same person, how can this be a solution for small workgroups? And I get the point that it can be used by only one person at the same time, but I am not sure if they either implicitly or explicitly state that it is non-transferrable. Food for lawyers I guess.